Thursday, August 3, 2017

Great Surprise

I'd had a visitor over to our house earlier in the afternoon, and had plans for the rest of the evening so was literally in the middle of a full day when I stopped by the JV office here in Frydlant for an afternoon meeting.

In sweltering heat at the top of the building (no A/C here!), Brian Stephens and I were working through a list of continuing improvements on our JV Prayer Room project.

Deep in the midst of trying to solve a problem, with no expectation of anything but working through that list before Brian needed to leave, my sub-conscience suddenly registered a voice at the doorway.

"Hey beautiful sister-in-law!"

Turning my head I literally had one of the biggest surprises that I can remember!

There stood my brother-in-law, Steve (one of Dave's brothers).

Both he and Brian started laughing at me (in the nicest way!) that I was so shocked at his appearance, and that I had no idea he was here! Dave and he were just together yesterday in Norway, finishing up their father-son trip with his dad and the three brothers. Dave never mentioned that Steve was coming here afterward.

Once I got over the shock, we had a nice catch-up conversation, I got him a cup of coffee, and I texted Dave to say, "You never told me Steve was coming!!!" His reply:

"We Patty brothers are everywhere!" 😉

Steve was here in town for some meetings for only a few hours (he does consulting on some projects for JV and was checking in on them), and heads back to the States from Krakow tomorrow. So if I hadn't been at the office for my meeting right in the middle of the afternoon, I probably never would have even known he was here.

It was a great surprise!

**Dave is still gone for another week, as he just headed to Croatia today for a week of JV country leader training.

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I write Living By Lysa from my window's view of Lysa hora in the Beskydy mountains, to capture our life and ministry in the Czech Republic. We serve here with Josiah Venture, an organization passionate about sharing Jesus with the next generation, and training young leaders to make disciples in Central and Eastern Europe.

Life is made up of small details each day and those are the pieces that make our lives rich, beautiful and meaningful. I enjoy noticing and writing about those details.